--- John Lacny <jlacny at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Yoshie Furuhashi brings up:
>
> > the CTV in Venezuela and the AFL-CIO's support for
> > them
>
> and
>
> > the doctors' strike in Saskatchewan in 1961
>
> These are immediate examples that sprang to my mind
> as well, but I think
> you're missing my point. These were actions that
> served the interests of the
> capitalists. In the case of the CTV "strike" against
> the state oil company,
> it was really more of a lockout by the top managers
> in a bid to overthrow a
> democratically-elected poor people's government, and
> furthermore it was
> defied by most of the lower-rung workers. The point
> I am trying to make is
> that the key criterion for judging picketlines is
> always CLASS, not whether
> you think someone's tactics are off.
John, you've been excoriating anybody who suggested that crossing a picket line was ever ever justified, with real life examples (not just "counterfactuals"), at least one of them current. Are you now leaving the determination of somebody's class to decide for ourselves?
Andy F.
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